Erasmus+ Online Language Support
The Erasmus+ programme gives you access to Online Language Support (OLS), which gives you the opportunity to improve your knowledge of the language you are studying abroad in. OLS makes language support accessible in a flexible and easy way and contributes to the promotion of language learning and linguistic diversity.
The online language support is available to you for three years. This gives you the opportunity to improve your language skills before, during and after your stay abroad. A total of 24 languages are currently available at different learning levels (from level A1 to xx). Both the range of languages and the individual learning levels will be gradually expanded in the future. Access to the language courses includes a wide variety of interactive and customised activities. You can also take language courses in any of the languages available on OLS with no limit on the number of languages and learning units and improve your language skills over a total period of three years.
To gain full access to the language learning programme, including the self-assessments, you must first join the individual language communities. Here you also have the opportunity to exchange ideas in the OLS forums (also known as communities) and discuss your language learning experiences. There are already 12 communities with their respective forums and community managers.
Online language test
Before and after your stay abroad, you can take an online language test in your language of instruction to assess your language level.
Please note: the results of the OLS have no influence on your exchange place and will not be passed on to the partner university by Paderborn University.
Please evaluate the results of the language test for yourself. Do your language skills correspond to the level required by the partner university? If this is not yet the case, please take part in the OLS language course and/or language courses offered by other providers(Centre for Language Teaching, partner university, etc.).
Online language course
In addition to the online language tests, free online language courses are also available.
As soon as you have completed the language test, you will receive access to the online language course. You can use the online language course at your own pace and according to your needs.
The content of the online language courses is constantly being expanded - so check the OLS from time to time for new and interesting options!
Here you will find detailed instructions on the language tests and courses, which you must follow exactly in order to access the relevant sections. In case of technical difficulties, the Help Centre of the European Commission is at your disposal: Help centre (europa.eu). Unfortunately, the International Office cannot offer you any assistance as this is an external programme.